Posts Tagged ‘concubine’

Silk (2007)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | France | Italy | Japan | UK
Actors: Pitt, Michael | Vogel, Tony | Bertorelli, Toni | Welsh, Kenneth | Molina, Alfred | Golding, Michael | Cecchi, Carlo | Fiorini, Marc | Csuth, Leslie | Tezuka, Toru | Morita, Hiroya | Ando, Akinori | Kunimura, Jun | Hongô, Kanata | Yakusho, Kôji
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Based on the Alessandro Baricco’s novel this is the story of a married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve’s wife Helene begins to suspect.

Sleeping Dictionary, The (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Alba, Jessica | Blethyn, Brenda | Dancy, Hugh | Hoskins, Bob | Ian, Christopher Ling Lee | Inocian, Junix | Jessing Langgi, Michael | Maniam, Mano | Moggie, K.K. | Mortimer, Emily | Richard, Cicilia Anak | Rogers, Malcolm | Salleh, Eugene | Taylor, Noah | White, Kate Helen
Directors: Jenkin, Guy
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.

Last Emperor, The (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Lone, John | Chen, Joan | O'Toole, Peter | Ying, Ruocheng | | Dun, Dennis | Sakamoto, Ryuichi | Han, Maggie | Young, Ric | Wu, Vivian | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Go, Jade | Ikeda, Fumihiko | Vuu, Richard | Tijger, Tsou
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.